Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

Edgar Allan Poe

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe

The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

Eldridge Cleaver

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death…. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.

Eldridge Cleaver

But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.

Edvard Munch

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Edvard Munch

I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

Edvard Munch

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Edvard Munch

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Are these offenses painful to watch or what?

Greg Peterson

As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: 'Just BE THERE, F**K!'

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

Jason LaRue

Everything is as expected. There's no pain, but we still have to get the swelling out so I can squat.

People understand bureaucracy and they understand sometimes it's a pain in the butt. And any time you're going to start a new program, there's going to be some problems.

Jacques Chirac

At such a painful time, words are really powerless,

Tom Waits

Commercials are an unnatural use of my work, ... It's like having a cow's udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating.

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.

Larry Davis

You never have to paint it, just get a hose.

They are paying a really painful price. It's a painful process.

Larry Davis

There was no pain. He did feel some weakness and that's totally normal.

Xabi Alonso

It was so disappointing for us and a painful defeat,

Carl Crawford

It was the most painful triple I've ever got.

Germaine Greer

The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

Hayao Miyazaki

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Gordie Howe

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Georgette Heyer

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

Horace

A poem is like a painting.

Horace

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

Herman Edwards

That's always a concern with a player when he's injured. There's a difference between injured and pain. If a guy's injured, he's injured. Pain is pain. Guys can play with pain. Guys can't play when they're injured.

Herman Cain

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

Herbert Spencer

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.